we re seeing it today with the vice president speaking ought howard university at a dnc event to talk about the ways in which they re going to expand this voting program across the country, grassroots efforts among communities that perhaps don t have the highest rates of voting and to ensure that they have access as some of that s rights are impacting those communities, some of these laws are impacts kmungts in certain states. but it s interesting. they have made no secret that infrastructure is their number one priority in terms of the legislative effort and what they ve put out every single day. we have been waiting for the president, for example, to make remarks on voting rights. to outline what his next steps will be. we ll hear from the vice president, the president meet behind closed doors. there is still a lot that remains to be seen.
on. is the administration in favor of a national id card as pardon of the enhanced vetting? look, we have laid out what our principles and priorities are and we ll work with congress on determining the best way to make those specific pieces of legislation. but the things that i outlined or what we d like to see and whether or not what form that comes in that s yet to be determined. but those are the principles we d like to see take place in any extreme vetting program. you are not ruling out a national id card? right but also not saying that we are fully that. i m saying we laid out principles and priorities we d like to see and think are important in extreme voting program. between time the president set the tweet out last night saying that he s called for a step up of extreme vetting until now, can you layout exactly what has been stepped up in that time frame? look, i think he s taking a call to action. i know he s spoken several times with members of his national security t
the number of absentee ballots requested by members of the military, so far dramatically down, they say, according to the military voter protection project. they say in the crucial swing state of ohio, 3.3% of eligible military voters have so far requested ballots as of a week and a half ago. north carolina and virginia both are under 2%. in 2009, congress passed the military and overseas voter empowerment act. that was supposed to help smooth the process for them to vote. but critics question whether that is really being properly carried out. it was supposed to make it easier for service members to register and request an absentee ballot and ultimate participate. so with the numbers, it raised serious questions for us not only about whether our service members will have their voices heard on election day, but more importantly, whether that important federal law was actually implemented. but the head of the pentagon s voting program claims military voting assistance has
members in your county for those to end early. there were those who tried to do away with early voting or tried to compress it so we couldn t get people out to vote. in america i think we ought to work on getting more people to vote. make it easier not just on tuesday. so the general assembly when i was in control of the democrats we did that. and the republicans have pushed hard to rescind some of those rules. some of the counties i believe were influenced by the discussion in raleigh and they backed away from a comprehensive voting program. a lot of people rose up and demanded for the board of elections to stand up yesterday and to allow us to go ahead and vote very often in every county to make it easier for americans to exercise their most constitutional right. we do start going to the polls tomorrow. it s mighty exciting. now, it s very important what you ve done in terms of fighting